Lisa Page Says FBI Had No Proof Of Collusion When Mueller Was Appointed Special Counsel

A shocking but not-so-unexpected revelation came from the testimony of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page during a closed-door interview between Congressional investigators. Page revealed to investigators that the FBI did not have a shred of evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia at the time that special counsel Robert Mueller was hired in May of 2017. This contradicts the entire premise that was used to justify the appointment of the special counsel made of over a dozen high-profile attorney's led by a former Director of the FBI itself, Robert Mueller.

Page became intimately involved (literally) with the so-called investigation that the president refers to as a "witch-hunt" which was set up by an internal cabal of opposition to the Trump administration. This internal group of high-level government officials colluded with Hillary Clinton to look the other way instead of charging her for her blatant "mishandling" of classified information. The pressure came to a head when a Congressional oversight committee took on its own investigation into the Trump/Russia investigation itself and former Chief of the Counterespionage Section Peter Strzok was called to testify.

Strzok says he agreed to the hearing but in reality, he had no choice because he was facing a subpoena if he did not comply. It was texts exchanged between Strzok, who led the investigation into both Hillary Clinton's email scandal and the Trump/Russia collusion, that shed light on what was really going on behind the scenes. Aside from sleeping with Page, who was an FBI attorney at the time, Strzok's texts revealed blatant bias and disregard for justice, he was not going to let Trump win even if that meant looking the other way when it came to Hillary Clinton's crimes.

After Strzok's testimony was heard and Congressional investigators learned of his affair and biased messages exchanged with Page, on government cell phones no less, they ordered that Page herself appear before them. She initially declined to agree to the hearing but when it became clear she would be subpoenaed and forced to show up regardless she caved and agreed to a closed-door hearing. It was during this hearing that Page testified before Capitol Hill in July. Lawmakers questioned her involvement and the meaning of one text in particular that spoke of joining Mueller's team.

Former FBI Chief Peter Strzok sent the message in question on May 18, 2017, just one day after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign. The exact text message from Strzok to Page read, "Who gives an (expletive), one more assistant director…versus an investigation leading to impeachment? … You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there's no big there." This is just one of the disconcerting texts where Strzok openly talked with his FBI lover saying things like wanting to impeach Trump and "f*ck Trump".

As for Page's response to Congressional investigators asking about the meaning of the text, Page said that she understood the text to mean that the FBI didn't know if the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia. "I think this represents that even as far as May 2017, we still couldn’t answer the question," Page said. Her admission is a major blow to the entire foundation of the special investigation started by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein who appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as lead investigator. Rosenstein basically gave Mueller full authority to do whatever he felt was necessary and every single person who ever had contact with the Trump campaign and its officials was harassed and vetted with a fine-tooth comb for nearly two years.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More text messages between former FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are a disaster and embarrassment to the FBI &amp; DOJ. This should never have happened but we are learning more and more by the hour. “Others were leaking like mad” in order to get the President! ……..</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1040210045525536768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2018</a></blockquote>

The investigation has still not yielded a shred of evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, instead, Mueller has used his authority as special counsel to punish those who helped Trump get into office. The special counsel went after the Trump campaign's former manager Paul Manafort digging up crimes from his past that included money laundering and tax evasion, all committed prior to becoming Trump's campaign manager. The special counsel has also gone after a number of other former Trump campaign officials such as Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen who turned out to have some skeletons in his own closet. Cohen along was charged with numerous felonies and ultimately pleaded guilty to eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch: “The Strzok firing is as much about the Mueller operation as anything else. There would be no Mueller Special Councel to investigate so called collusion but for the machinations of Strzok &amp; his colleagues at the top levels of the FBI. We know this…</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029321624603054080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">….guy was corrupt and had anti-Trump animus. Strzok and others at the FBI should be criminally investigated for the way the conducted this investigation. Instead, Mueller is pretending nothing went wrong. He used Strzok, he used the Clinton DNC Dossier…the whole thing….</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029323499226243072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok is a fraud, as is the rigged investigation he started. There was no Collusion or Obstruction with Russia, and everybody, including the Democrats, know it. The only Collusion and Obstruction was by Crooked Hillary, the Democrats and the DNC!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029352395464224769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>

The FBI had been officially investigating the Trump campaign for over nine months by May of 2017 and had found no collusion with Russia. One of the more egregious revelations from the Congressional investigation as well as from Freedom of Information Act filings by political watchdog group Justice Watch was that top-ranking FBI officials had abused the FISA warrant powers to obtain permission from a judge to wiretap a former Trump-campaign volunteer named Carter Page.

Strzok among others was aware that the reasoning presented to the judge to obtain the FISA warrant on Page was not only based on lies, but they also withheld the fact that their evidence was based on the Steele dossier which was from a former FBI informant that was paid for by Trump's political opposition, Hillary Clinton. A massive pile of horse crap, and a total manipulation of authority to achieve the political goal of a group of rogue elements within the highest levels of government. Lawmakers such as Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) asked page if Strzok believed "the odds were nothing and that he had a concern that there was no big there there regarding any collusion."

Page responded, "No, I don’t think so. I think it’s a reflection of us still not knowing… It still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing, probably not nothing, as we probably knew more than that by that point. But in the scheme of the possible outcomes, the most serious one obviously being crimes serious enough to warrant impeachment; but on the other scale that, you know, maybe an unwitting person was, in fact, involved in the release of information, but it didn’t ultimately touch any senior, you know, people in the administration or on the campaign. And so the text just sort of reflects that spectrum."

Now for the real question, will any of these criminals face justice and see the inside of a jail cell?